Monday, February 27, 2006

Dozens of never before released photos from the civil rights era came to light this weekend after an intern discovered them buried in an equipment closet at the Birmingham News. The photos had been in a box marked: "Keep. Do Not Sell." But at the time they were taken, the newspaper didn't want to draw attention to the racial discord of the 1950s and 1960s, news photographers from the period said....Unseen. Unforgotten. The Birmingham Newsrecently discovered previously-unpublished photos of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The site includes audio interviews with some of the photographers and a PDF of how the photos appeared in the newspaper. [from MetaFilter.com]"Cities are what man make them," reads the lettering on this courthouse...while KKK supporters cover their faces in the courtroom. [from MaddowOnline.com]